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1. 2009 NYC Marathon Timelapse
2 years ago
Timelapse video taken of the 2009 New York City Marathon.

Location between miles 6 and 7 on 4th Avenue in Brooklyn.

Shot on a Canon EOS 5D with a TS-E 24mm f/3.5L Tilt Shift lens.

1,641 frames - 1 frame every 5 seconds - Average Exposure f/4.5 @ 1/320.


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  • mdkmc 2 years ago
    Thank you. I had a great time shooting, hope you enjoyed watching!
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  • KB Carleton 2 years ago
    Great timelapse!!! I loved it
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  • CB 2 years ago
    Great little timelapse - I watched it up the road on the corner of 16th and 4th and you really captured the atmosphere nicely.
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  • James Shilton 2 years ago
    looks great, so you shot this on a 5d (not 5d markII)?
    Did you animate the stills to produce a video then?

    Thanks
  • mdkmc 2 years ago
    This was shot as individual frames with the camera tethered to my laptop. I used the timer function in Canon's Utility software. Once I had all the stills I merged them in Quicktime Pro (open image sequence) and then edited the final movie in iMovie to add fades, sound, etc.
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  • oh!Artem 2 years ago
    nice)
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  • OK, let me add a constructive critic: is too fast, It's impossible to view the runners, I know that the effect is what you want but IMHO 5 seconds between each frame is too much... Anyway, don't give up and keep posting video!!
  • mdkmc 2 years ago
    Hey Mattia. I know what you mean but I wanted the clip length to be 1 minute and the frame rate at 30fps so when you do the math, 5 second intervals end up working out. If I had done a shot every 1 second the video would have been over 5 minutes long. The next one I'm working on is a longer timelapse with more fluid motion.
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  • get outside 2 years ago
    Really cool.. and I was one of the runners too.. :)
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  • Really great idea colors and use of the tilt shift lens...the only thing I would have done different would be to take one pic every second instead of 5 seconds...
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  • Stan Lesterage 2 years ago
    i don't like the video because the runners just pop up out of nowhere and then they disappear into nothing. i find this appear-disappear act rather unpleasant to view, since the individuals on the sidewalk do not interact with the disappearing act on the road, there is no rhythm, there is no *time-lapse-feel* in this video at all. false advertising is what it is. i did not feel to have absorbed any valuable imagery after viewing it. whatever math you try to explain this piece of crap with: yeah i hear you, your math is 100% exact, the result is just another wasted minute. this video is so ridiculous, why would anybody put this into such a prominent spot? humanity is losing valuable internet video viewing time, 6322 minutes so far, 105 hours. the result: two weeks of potential creative working time forever lost. mods please put up a sign here: WARNING: crappy clueless student experiment, just watch if you have time to waste.
    where is the NOT LIKE voting button?
  • Brandt Bethune 2 years ago
    Wow you're a douchebag. You don't even have videos up, so shut your mouth. At least they're doing something. This is Vimeo not youtube you flammer, go elsewhere.
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  • Josh Reichlin plus 2 years ago
    I thought the colors were fantastic and quite pleasant to view. Thanks for sharing!

    Please don't let any unnecessarily harsh comments prevent you from putting out more work! I think it's great!
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  • MuratCo 2 years ago
    i liked your framing and the vibrant colors; although it didn't bother me much, i can see where stan is coming from ~ i guess augusto's comment acts as a partial solution to that.
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  • bea eggli 2 years ago
    I found it also too fast

    Though... I love the tilt shift effect!
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  • Geoff A Charters plus 2 years ago
    I like the speed of it. Not too fast. What are you talking about? It looks awesome.
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  • rakesh solanki 2 years ago
    hi.............that cool...... i like that....
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  • ESTHER 2 years ago
    love it, everybody looks so colourful :)
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  • Brandt Bethune 2 years ago
    I think it looks pretty cool, but I'm also a sucker for a tilt-shift lens.
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  • kaoz314 2 years ago
    I think it awesome and to the guy who couldn't see the runners, thats not the point. If the man wanted to show runners he would have taken pictures. I think the points where it looks like the flow of runners is going backwards is really cool thanks for the post.
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  • Shawn Landersz plus 2 years ago
    ok that was seriously amazing! the whole effect of the Marathon, you couldnt've chosen a better occassion for a timelapse. Bravo!
    (but i can see why 5 seconds could be a bit too much, but stil this is awesome!)
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  • Ronald Eller 2 years ago
    Excellent
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  • Yannick Barthe plus 2 years ago
    Cool and the sound is really good !
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  • Pavel Gregoric 1 year ago
    1shot,excellent composition. Congratulations
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